Crassula calico kitten

prayerrock(zone 5)July 16, 2009

I am trying to find information on this crassula and cant seem to find much. I have seen it called a Jade, but I would like to know if it is a true Jade or not. I would like to be able to see pictures of it.

If anyone can help me with information on this crassula I would appreciate it. Thank you.

I tried to look for my old post on this plant, but it seems it is too old.

Anyway here is my old Crassula 'Calico Kitten' from that post. It clearly does not resemble a Jade Plant:

Alas, I no longer have it. As I recall, it was a bit temperamental about light and water, wanting less of the first and more of the second than I gave it. So it doesn't behave like a Jade plant any more than it looks like one.

Oh a very beautiful plant indeed. No it does not look like a jade at all. Still would like to know the botanical name for it besides just crassula. The quotes on it would indicate a hybrid or sport right?

When it's in single quotation marks it usually means that it's a cultivated variety (=cultivar) of something that particularly struck the grower's interest, so much so that the grower took it (and perhaps not 100 others of the same seed batch) and selected it for further propagation - the grower also had it published. I'm not familiar with the whys and wherefores of publishing a name but there's a process to it.

When I said true jade I was thinking of real jade plant..there are many vArieties of jades. I saw some one post the crassula calico kitten as a jade, and I wanted to know if it really is a jade or not.

I am convinced now that it is not. I did a search on it but could not come up with much do to the calico kitten name..it brough up all kinds of animal stuff.

Karen715 is corret, perfectly correct, and perfectly spelled out in the correct way, that's the way to go girl.
I am smiling now, I have the one that is called 'Ruby' a British plant. I also have a green one what has the red dots ( along the borders of the leaf)thus the name of C. marginalis which is a short cut. C humbertii Jacobsen's book is part of this family as well. just another sub. species Norma

I bought some of the calico kitten a few weeks ago and only some it was variegated at the time... and still. Does the color change or was it simply 2 types in the pot when I bought it?
(trying photo thing ;)

The green and white is the variegated form, yet there in another form, It 'Pirate Girl' you were perfectly correct on you second post. Notice: there is another name for the dots around the border of the leaves= stomatas Norma Crasulady2